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36226 O Happy Day (fish stew recipe) -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: >They'll never know the dignity of inspired labor, of a physical job >well-done, of the sweet soreness one feels the day after some heavy lifting, >hammering, digging. That, like Chuck's >The soul needs labor. The deep, hard, sweating, and crushing kind >of labor that connects every fiber and bone of the body to the >earth... sounds like a load of organicist claptrap to me. And also extremely masculinist - I don't see any evocation of the beauti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 15 10:38:13 PST 2000

36227 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3742 (Quote Kvetching) -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >14 screens of quoted text. What are you counting as quotes? Quotes from other posts, or published material from elsewhere forwarded to the list? Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 15 10:32:58 PST 2000

36228 MedScam -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - December 15, 2000 December 15, 2000 British Medical Establishment Ignores Research Fraud, Journal Editors Charge By KAREN BIRCHARD The editors of the three most prestigious medical journals in Britain charged on Tuesday that a number of researchers are fabricating results to win grants and advance their careers -- putting people's lives at risk -- and that the British medical establishment has failed repeatedly to do anything to correct the situation. ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 15 10:32:05 PST 2000

36229 Silverstein on Dees -- rank: 1000

At 7:01 PM +0000 10/24/00, Justin Schwartz wrote (about Morris Dees): >Well, maybe he's a fraud, but he sure shuts down Nazis and Klansmewn >pretty well. His outfit put the Alabama Klan out of >biz--literally--and just took away the Ayrna Nations site in haydn >Lake, Idaho. I'll take frauds like that any time. I don't >unfderstand why Cockburn and Silverstein have this unerring >Stalinist instinct to go after the good guys. I've been meaning for weeks to scan & send Ken Sil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 14 12:47:58 PST 2000

36230 WSJ to GWB: buddy up to AG -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 14, 2000 Economists Agree: Bush Should Befriend Greenspan By JACOB M. SCHLESINGER Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- George W. Bush often bashed the Clinton administration on the campaign trail, and he has spent much of the postelection period huddled with his father's old guard. But economists across the spectrum agree that in at least one area he would be better off following the lead of President Clinton than President Bush: cultivating Alan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 14 11:53:51 PST 2000

36231 two Larry's? -- rank: 1000

Today's Washington Post reports: >Bush also plans to provide reassurance with appointments and >nominations of Democrats and longtime Washington hands. For example, >Republicans close to the campaign say Bush is considering inviting >Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, who was nominated by >President Clinton in May 1999, to remain in his post. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 11:59:52 PST 2000

36232 Seth, Pay Up -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >By the way, Ray Fair of Yale, one of the few economists who was right about >the NAIRU concept before it self-destructed, apparently had an election >model that predicted Decision 2000 on the nose: 48 to 48. (I learned this >after the election.) If anyone knows the details of the model, by all means >share. <http://fairmodel.econ.yale.edu/>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 11:13:54 PST 2000

36233 musical interlude -- rank: 1000

...courtesy of Dan Rather: <http://evolution-control.com/cbs.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 11:20:20 PST 2000

36234 DLC on the transition -- rank: 1000

================================== NEW DEMOCRATS ONLINE -- NEW DEM DAILY -- Pithy news and commentary from the DLC. ================================== [ http://www.ndol.org ] 14-DEC-2000 A Good Ending -- And a Good Beginning by DLC President Al From Last night's speeches to the nation by Vice President Al Gore and Governor George W. Bush put an end to the longest presidential election in 124 years with finality and style. The Vice President's concession speech was about as good as it gets: cle ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Dec 14 11:11:07 PST 2000

36235 O Happy Day -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >I've never had a circle jerk performed with >latex gloves, however. How's it feel ungloved? Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 09:40:17 PST 2000

36236 Pay up Seth! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Following in the footsteps of our good Vice President, I accept the >legitimacy of the Bush victory, however much I may disagree with the >SC decision giving it to him :) So pay up Seth! > >Now, in the case of a dispute on the bet, we could appeal to the >highest tribunal of LBO, but my faith in the impartiality of judges >has, as Justice Stevens worried, been shaken by this whole ordeal, >so I might find myself accusing Doug of partisan decisionmak ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 09:47:00 PST 2000

36237 Seth, Pay Up -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Nathan Newman wrote: > >>So, for the rest of LBO folks who so confidently predicted a Gore win given >>the economy et al, how do you explain the closeness of the race in the end? > >-Decline of party? Gore's distancing himself from Clinton? His dismal >-personality and campaign? It was really quite an achievement to lose >-that election - one for the record books, in fac ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 09:39:41 PST 2000

36238 scandalous voting machines -- rank: 1000

New York Press - December 14, 2000 Votescam 2000 The Real Scandal Is the Voting Machines Themselves The ongoing electoral insanity has confirmed something that I and a small number of people who have occasionally thought about these things have known for a while: Over the past three-and-a-half decades we in the United States have sold out our election process-which, unless I'm very much mistaken, is the foundation of our democracy (such as it is)-to a small but lucrative cadre of for-profit busi ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 09:36:19 PST 2000

36239 Mayor Bill? -- rank: 1000

New York Press - December 14, 2000 Mayor Bill Clinton [by Andrey Slivka] Is there any chance that Bill Clinton won't be the next mayor of New York City? The media insists on treating the idea of a Mayor Clinton as fanciful. But, to paraphrase Mencken, this remains the Republic, where everything happens that's forbidden by decency. For those of us who have contested the Clintons, some of us even since the crypto-rightist couple first slithered out of Arkansas and into the national conversation ei ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 09:34:32 PST 2000

36240 Bill on what's great about America -- rank: 1000

[...and forget running on the election in 2002!] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ___________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release December 14, 2000 REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Chequers, England 9:49 A.M. (L) THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Last night, President-elect Bush and Vice President Gore showed what is best about America. In this election, the American people were clo ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 14 07:39:54 PST 2000